FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Cuban Dilemma

For some months, Cuba's Premier
Fidel Castro has been showing nearly as much distaste for Havana-bound
hijackers as have American authorities. Last Nov. 10, after three men
hijacked a Southern Airways jet and took it on a marathon flight to
Cuba (TIME, Nov. 27), Castro ordered them jailed and called for broader
measures to put the clamps on aerial piracy. With that, the U.S. and
Cuba, through Swiss intermediaries, began negotiations that could lead
to a mutual agreement to ensure that hijackers would face harsh
punishment for their crime in both countries.